NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon RX 7600

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 249.99

$ 119.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

8122 points

259% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

173 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

126 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

153 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

67 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2312 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

1276.95 points

340% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

82600 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

99664 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2655 MHz

125% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

13% slightly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

157% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

177% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

454% significantly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

52nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7600 beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7600 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7600 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7600 is faster than the GeForce GTX 970.